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the world with baby blue eyes behind round-lensed glasses.
Despite being short and stubby, his fingers played the com-
puter keyboard like a virtuoso. There was no one better at
interfacing with corporate and political ICE, and getting
past the security measures to access whatever data was be-
ing hidden.
"They know they've been set up," Lynch said.
Aboard the Dragon's Gate, the infrared images of the
SEALs were scrambling now, trying to establish a holding
position against overwhelming odds. The trawler had be-
come a death trap.
"Yes." The woman stood at Lynch's side. She was tall
and slender. Her platinum white hair was worn cropped
close, allowing the delicate lines of her skull to show. Long
earrings from a popular science-fiction television series de-
pended from her ears. A cosmetic diamond comprised of a
triangle of blue meeting a reversed triangle of green lay
over her left eye. A ruby earring flashed on her fight nostril.
She wore black leather pants, hot pink pumps and a black
leather vest over a hot pink tube top.
Her name was Kalico, and she was probably the most





dangerous woman with software Lynch had ever had the
opportunity to meet.
"How's the video coming?" Lynch asked.
"I've laid out the parameters," Kalico replied in her
quiet voice. "It'll look good." "How long?"
She flashed him a winning smile. "Minutes. We already
shot the blue-screen stuff. And I've just completed the pal-
ette changes that'll bring everything together." "What about seams?"
"Come on, Dixon, you've seen my work. If seams were
needed in this production, they'd be as artistic as those in
fishnet stockings. Are you getting antsy?"
"No." When he'd found her, Kalico had been working
with a prominent California-based CD-ROM gaming outfit
that was raking in millions every year. His investment in
Kalico to get her away from the gaming company had been
considerable, but Lynch knew her special effects were noth-
ing short of magic. "I do know the rain and the lightning
are going to throw off the shadows and light sources."
"It's taken care of. I used a flicker-image program I
wrote. Which, if I were back in the colonies, would net me
a rather handsome infusion of cash, I might add."
"But without all the subterfuge allowed by using it
here."
She smiled at him. "Touch6, love. There is something